The initial caller on the line identified herself
as the Cuban consul's secretary, a young Mexican woman named Sylvia
Duran. She told the Soviets that she was with a man had a question.
She then put a man on the phone, and insisted in speaking in what was
described as "broken Russian". It was reported that two individuals
who heard the tapes reported that the man was also speaking "broken
English". The linguistically challenged man told the Soviet officer
that he had a contact number that he wanted to pass on to the Soviets.
The Soviet officer told the man to come on over.

Three days later, the man called again, inquiring about the status
of his visa that had been the purpose of his call on Saturday the 28th. He said his name was Lee Oswald.

The CIA's translators reported that they received tapes of the
Oswald phone calls right after they were made. After JFK was killed,
these translators were left strictly alone.

The CIA's translators, the husband-and-wife team of Boris and Anna
Tarasoff, listened to these tapes. Boris focused on Russian voices; Anna
focused on English and Spanish voices. Boris reported that both of
these tapes were rushed over to them right after the phone calls were
made.

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Boris' testimony is consistent with the general procedure, which was
to get tapes from the Soviet compound to the translator and pick them
up all on the same day. Boris was very clear that the voices on the September 28 tape and the October 1 tape were the same man. Both the wiretap monitors and Tarasoff were trained to memorize
the voices of the individuals who worked at the embassy compounds. When
Tarasoff told Bill Bright that these tapes were of the same man who
identified himself as Oswald, Bright got very excited.

The short answer is that certain high officials did not want the Tarasoffs interviewed. Ann Goodpasture is still alive, and should be interviewed and asked why.

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The long answer starts with an assumption driven by the facts.
Goodpasture and the other lead officers in Mexico City knew that there
was a problem with the tapes that portrayed the voices of Duran, Oswald,
and an unknown Soviet on September 28, as well as the tape of Oswald on
October 1. One enterprising CIA officer even made a chart
of the supposed Oswald visits and the times that the CIA cameras
trained on the embassies were in operation, trying to figure it all out.
He also created a very short and effective index of the alleged Oswald visits and phone calls.

The problems flowed from a few obvious questions.

How did Oswald get into the Cuban consulate on Saturday the 28th, when the consulate was generally closed?

How did Oswald convince Duran to call the Soviet consulate and put him on the line?

Especially after the Soviet and Cuban officials had compared notes on Oswald on the 27th and had concluded that he had lied to both of them in his attempts to obtain an instant visa?

Why did Oswald try to speak in "broken Russian"? And why would a
native-born American like Oswald speak in "broken English", according to two of the individuals who heard the tapes?

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Another problem was the voice of Duran on the tape. Duran had
been working at the consulate all summer long. Duran was
identified by name in the station's photo logs back in 1962 and as recently as September 30, 1963. The monitors would have known her voice in late September.

A Cuban undercover agent, Luis Alberu, also known as LITAMIL-9,
worked inside the Cuban embassy. Alberu would regularly meet CIA
officer Robert Shaw in his car and talk with him about the people who
were working at and visiting the Cuban embassy. Later, Robert Shaw said, I kept an eye on Duran. He knew who she was.
Alberu would look at the CIA's photos of visitors to the Cuban
compound and identify who they were. If it wasn't Duran's voice on
the tape, the wiretap monitors would have known it. Goodpasture would
have known it. What would a reasonable CIA officer do in this
situation?

There is no record of anyone identifying Duran's voice on the
September 28 tape. Until 1976, no one ever asked either of the
Tarasoffs about this call from Duran and Oswald.